Stress, Extrametricality and the Minimal Word in Seri

Word final consonant extrametricality in Hungarian

learners’ attitudes toward the effectiveness of mobile-assisted language learning (mall) in vocabulary acquisition in the iranian efl context: the case of word lists, audiobooks and dictionary use

رشد انفجاری تکنولوژی فرصت های آموزشی مهیج و جدیدی را پیش روی فراگیران و آموزش دهندگان گذاشته است. امروزه معلمان برای اینکه در امر آموزش زبان بروز باشند باید روش هایی را اتخاذ نمایند که درآن ها از تکنولوژی جهت کمک در یادگیری زبان دوم و چندم استفاده شده باشد. با در نظر گرفتن تحولاتی که رشته ی آموزش زبان در حال رخ دادن است هم اکنون زمان مناسبی برای ارزشیابی نگرش های موجود نسبت به تکنولوژی های جدید...

Lexical stress detection on stress-minimal word pairs

We present a study on the use of lexical stress classi cation to aid in the recognition of phonetically similar words. In this study, we use a simple pattern recognition approach to determine which syllable is lexically stressed for phonetically similar word pairs (e.g., PERfect, perFECT) extracted from continuously spoken sentences. We use a combination of two features from the acoustic correl...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

Kashaya Extrametricality and Formal Symmetry

Kager (2012), Martínez-Paricio & Kager (2013), and Martínez-Paricio (2013) — collectively MPK — propose the layered feet ((σσ)σ) and (σ(σσ)) to account for a variety of phenomena, including stress windows, mixed binary and ternary alternations, and extrametricality. Although many metrical theories do not accommodate left-edge extrametricality, they use constraints that are almost entirely symme...